Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-25

| ADDING independently se.eion' o''
The report of John A. Parker, agent
| CT the State Of Virginia in the claim o.
the State of Virginia against the United
States for advances made for the yeaI
of 1912, was presented.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
To confirm the rights and privileges
of the Gay Manufacturing Company
and to grant certain additional powers.
To authorize the Lynchburg, Halifax
and North Carolina Railroad Company to
consolidate with the Roxboro' Railroad
Company, the Durham and Roxboro',
and any other railroad company in the
State of North Carolina.
To incorporate the Cripple-Creek
Iron and Steel Company.
To authorize county and city treasu.
rers in paying jurors, witnesses, and
others to retain taxes due the Common
wealth.
To amend and re-enact section 3 OF
an act, approved February %, 1867,
entitled an act to incorporate the She.
nandoah- Valley Railroad Company and
to issue preferred stock and convertible
bonds under the plan of reorganization
thereof.
To incorporate the Mercantile Club.
To incorporate the Virginia Trans
atlantic Steamship Line.
To authorize any corporation OF this
State to subscribe for, guarantee, OF
acquire the stock and bonds of the
Roanoke Water-Works.
To allow b. A. Rowe and others to
erect pier on York river, in Glouces-
ter county.
To allow John T. Fosque and others
to erect a pier on York river, i'll Glou-
cester county.
To amend an act entitled an act to
incorporate the Sisters of Charity OF
st. Joseph's Academy and Orphan Asy-
lum, of Richmond, Va.
To allow w. w. Almond to erect a
wharf on York river, in Gloucester
county.
For the protection of deer in the
county of Rockingham.
To authorize and enable the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad Company,
a corporation created and organized
under the laws of Kentucky, to con-
struct and operate an extension of its
line of railroad into and within the
State of Virginia.
AFTER THE UNITED STATES COURTS.
Mr.. Stubs offered the following:
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Court Of the United States for the Eastern dis
trirt Of Virginia In assuming jurisdiction In the
trial Of suits against various county treasurers
In Virginia and the Board OF Indemnity
In entertaining motion 70 enIoin and restrain
our State officials from paying out the money
Of the Commonwealth as the laws OF Virginia
direct; in taking from our State officers parties
who were In their custody charged with the
violations Of the laws Of this State and dis
charging them against law and without law:
now, therefore, &c,
/. ResoIred 6y the Senate (the House OF Dele
gates concuTIing). That this assumption OF
power by the Circuit Court OF the United States
for the Eastern district Of Virginia Is against
law and without law. and we earnestly and en-
phatically protest against tho usurpation OF
power by said court.
q That In the usurpstion by said court Of the
above power IL is an insult 10 Virginia. an utter
disregard Of our States rights guaranteed to
the Commonwealth Of Virginia, and wholly I'M
warranted by the United States Constitution or
by Federal legislation.
Mr.. Stubs wanted the rules requi-
ring the resolutions to lie over one day to
be suspended and let them be referred,
but there being opposition, he with
drew the motion.
DOWN WITH THE CONvICTS.
Mr.. Hurt, of Pittsylvania, presented
the following petition, TO which there
were sixty-two signatures
To the Senate and House Of Delegates, General
Assembly Of Virginia:
Your petitioners would respectfully repre-
sent that they are manufacturers f and dealers
In the great staple Of tobacco; that we pay tri-
butte 70 the great tobacco growing country Of
this State; that reside In the city Of Danvlle,
where the farmers marketed nearly 100000
pounds Of this great staple last year where
there were 3,e00 lsborers employed by us, giving
peace, plenty, and happiness to honest toll !;
that owing TO the action OF the Board OF Public
Works In leasing convict-lsbor 20 contractors
for the manufacture OF tobacco We have been
compelled ~ come In direct competition with
such labor We have had 70 stand quietly by
and see our once-prosperous trade pass In a
helpless condition beyond our honest efforts
10 save It This state Of things Is partially
the result Of your action In permitting competi-
tors 10 employ convict-labor, and thus, by pay
Ing Al cents pBT uhyk DOb Only cOUpblt Win
our goods One labor for which We pay 81
and $50 per day, but the fortu-
nate possessors of this boon go on the
markets and boldly proclaim that We cannot
compete with conyictmade tobacco. Is this
just7 Is this right3 Can you, In justice 10 the
3,Oe0 operatives who are our co-laborers. allow
this state Of things 10 continue, We humbly
pray that you Will not longer permit this In
justice. We appeal TO you 10 protect US, and
we ask that you will at once repeal all such
contracts. We as the citizens Of the State call
upon you as the representatives OF the intelii-
gence, labor, and worth OF the Commonwealth
10 expunge from your records all such laws as
permit such blot upon the honest efforts OF
home industry, enterprise, and toll as does this
law. which permits such a blow 10 be struck at
the principal industry Of the State by the ON
ployment Of conyictlabor in the manufacture
Of tobacco.
With considerations Of great respect. and
with the confident hope that you will right our
wrongs, we are, most respectfully, &c.
Mr.. Diggs, Of Lynchburg, presented
a petition signed by sixty-four dealers
in his city containing exactly the same
language as the above. The petitions
were referred.
TIE CHARLESTON, CINCINNATI AND CHI
CAGo ROAD.
The bill to authorize the Charleston,
Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Com
pany to construct and operate its road
through and within the counties Of
Scott, Wise, and Dickerson came up
on the question OF adopting the sub
. stitute proposed by the Committee on
Roads. The original bill provided
that the road should pass to the west
of Bristol, in Washington county, and
the substitute leaves it to tine engineers
to select the most practical route.
Mr.. Rhea moved to amend the sub
stitute by providing that the road shall
enter Virginia at Bristol or at any
point east of Bristol on the line be-
tween Virginia and Tennessee.
Mr.. Rhea strongly advocated his
amendment, saying that unless this
route is taken the road, if built, will be
decidedly detrimental to his town and
district.
Mr.. Lovenstein, who presented the
bill at the request of its friends, OPP
posed the amendment and advocated
the adoption of the substitute as re-
ported from the committee.
Mr.. Heaton, chairman of the Com
mittee on Roads, defended the course
pursued by the committee and opposed
the amendment.
Mr.. Koiner had doubts as to whether